FREE TO ROCK is a documentary film directed by 4-time Emmy winning filmmaker Jim Brown and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonviolent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold War. The film was recently featured on KPBS, and was distributed nationally by American Public Television. You can view the trailer at: www.freetorockmovie.com. Agenda:

• 6–7 p.m. Documentary Film Screening, with introduction by Nick Binkley, Executive Producer/Co-Producer
• 7–7:30 p.m. Panel: The Impact of Soft Power, Yesterday and Today, including a performance by Valery Saidfudinov, Soviet rock pioneer
• 7:30–8:30 p.m. Reception

• Mikheil Alexseev, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University
• Jesse Driscoll, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
• Mark LeVine, Department of History, UC Irvine
• Patrick Patterson, Department of History, UC San Diego
• Joanna Stingray, Singer-songwriter; interview subject in film
• Moderated by Bradford Auerbach

• International Institute, UC San Diego
• San Diego Diplomacy Council
• Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)